Owner’s manual fail While continuing our update of the Toyota dashboard symbols page, we ran into another rather minor owner’s manual fail. Looking through the 2025 Sequoia manual, we ran across an Auto LSD indicator. Now those letters were bound to get our attention, but forgetting that this is not a new system and that …
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DashboardSymbols.com descriptions of the symbols and tell-tales used on automobile and light truck dashboards and instrument panels.
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Fun fact: Most of the acronyms on our acronym page are not!
Acronyms — and Abbreviations! So when are acronyms not acronyms? I ran into a YouTube short from Neil deGrasse Tyson where he “spelled” this out (sorry). You can view it here. It turns out an acronym is a series of letters that spell something that can be pronounced. IBM is an abbreviation, not an acronym. …
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Ford got it right too…
Ford got it A few days ago, we castigated the industry for adding too many drive modes and credited Lexus with adding an Auto mode to relieve their drivers of the added headache. We also specifically called out Ford, when in fact Ford got it right too! We were so caught up in Ford adding …
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Another acronym page update
Acronym Page Update There is a new entry on our acronym/abbreviation page, as a result of the ongoing Toyota symbols page update. PKSB, or ParKing Support Brake, is now a part of a growing list. There is not a new symbol associated with it mostly because the system is simply a re-naming of Intelligent Clearance …
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New set of special drive modes added
Special drive modes Courtesy of the GR Corolla, Toyota Motors has a new set of Special Drive Modes. The GR Corolla is a creation of the company’s Gazoo Racing (GR) entity. One reviewer called the 300hp turbo charged GR the Hulk to the standard version’s Bruce Banner. Clever… The car features Normal, Track and Gravel …
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Toyota adds five rear seat belt reminder symbols
Rear seat belt reminder Moving through our Toyota symbols update begins with the addition of no less than five new rear seat belt reminder warning indicators. Five! It truly seems that the company has several people assembling these things and not talking to each other. However, its more likely that they are having difficulty deciding …
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New navigation and search options on the site
Navigation and search We did a live look at DashboardSymbols.com with someone who had not seen the site before. The result is the addition of new navigation and search options. Our subject started a search by typing the year of his vehicle first. We had neglected to add model years to our pages! We ran …
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